**Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora - Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District****Location**: Hutt Valley Hospital**Service**: Women and Children's Service**Contract**: Casual**Salary**: $46,182 - $53,803 Meras Meca - pro rata and based on skills and experience**Korero mo te turanga - About the role**We are excited to recruit to the recently created role of Maternity Care Assistant. Do you love being a student midwife, embrace caring for our community and want to put the knowledge and skills you have gained so far to good use? Then this is the role for you!**Mo to matou ropu - About our team**Hutt Maternity is a person-focused unit providing personalised, quality maternity care to birthing people. On average five babies are born in the Hutt Valley every day and we provide primary and secondary maternity care for about 1800 people a year in the Hutt Valley.Our midwifery unit functions much like an extended family, with work-life balance being extremely important to all of our staff.**Mou - About you**You will provide assistance to the midwifery and nursing team as required to ensure that a high level of maternity care is maintained at all times. The role involves basic care of birthing people and babies, providing practical and emotional support and education, housekeeping and clerical duties. All work is carried out under the direction and delegation of a registered midwife/nurse at all times.**Eligibility**This is a Core Children's worker position under the Children's Act 2014 and requires a full safety checks completed prior to commencement of employmentIf you share our commitment to innovative and personalised care, we'd love to talk with you, we also welcome visits to our unit from interested student midwives.**E pa ana ki a tatou - About us**Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley District are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Maori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.To find out more about us click on the following links:Hutt Valley**Me pehea te tuku tono - How to apply**- Your safety and that of our patients is important to us. It is our expectation that you will be fully vaccinated against COVID 19, having received two doses of an approved COVID 19 vaccination._**Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai****By joining together we will succeed**Share
